Local-first · Event-sourced · Offline-resilient
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Restaurants are chaotic.
Your POS shouldn't be.

Nice — Dependable — Yours

KINDpos is a point-of-sale system built for the real world of restaurants — where the internet goes down, printers jam, and every second counts. Unlike cloud-dependent systems, KINDpos runs locally, records every action permanently, and keeps working no matter what. Built by industry veterans who got tired of blaming the system.

$15,466 Saved vs Toast — 2 terminals, $500K/yr
$27,859 Saved vs Toast — 5 terminals, $1M/yr
$52,017 Saved vs Toast — 8 terminals, $2M/yr

Toast is eating half your profit

A typical full-service restaurant doing $1M/yr pays Toast 3.1–3.4% of total revenue. On a 7% operating margin, that's nearly half of every dollar of profit going to a POS vendor. Toast charges 2.99% on every card transaction and locks you into their processor — that lock-in alone costs $25,000 over 3 years before you pay a dollar of software.

Build Progress

Aug 2026 EventSchema required-key registry complete — 274 event types registered across 17 chunks, backed by 582 automated tests
Aug 2026 Web terminal reaches full parity with the Android terminal — check overview, gift cards, cash drawer management, visual floor plan, and a quick-pay tender bar
Aug 2026 Localization coverage extended across the full order-to-checkout flow, including Arabic and Hindi
Jul 2026 Full inventory, vendor, and recipe (BOM) subsystem shipped — auto-depletion at send, restore-on-void, recipe-based costing
Jul 2026 Combos & Specials shipped across dine-in, QSR, and web — auto-detected meal deals plus configurable specials with grace-period windows
Jul 2026 Metrc compliance integration certified — sandbox evaluation passed end-to-end across sales, packages, lab results, and transfers
Jun 2026 Delivery Phase 1 complete — delivery zones, radius/geocode assignment, and address autocomplete on order entry
Jun 2026 Browser-based web terminal shipped — server and manager landings, order entry, checkout, and card payments, ported 1:1 from the Android terminal
Jun 2026 Per-employee display language and text size now wired end-to-end, from Overseer setting to terminal
May 2026 All modules compile clean — full debug build verified across shared, server, hardware, and Android terminal with zero errors
May 2026 Item splitting, seat moves, tip adjustment, and payment detail scenes verified end-to-end with automated smoke tests — 10/10 passing
May 2026 Android terminal UI complete — Login, Manager Landing, Server Landing, Order Entry, Check Overview, Checkout, Payment, and Close Day scenes all wired
Apr 2026 Overseer back office complete — 13 wired scenes covering menu, staff, roles, reporting, payroll, hardware, and receipts
Apr 2026 Payment pipeline complete — card processing, cash, tip adjust, batch settlement, void, and refund all wired to the event ledger
Mar 2026 Print pipeline complete — kitchen tickets, guest receipts, server checkout receipts, and recap tickets all rendering to hardware
Mar 2026 Real-time satellite sync complete — WebSocket hub broadcast, auto-discovery via mDNS, and auto-reconnect on disconnect
Feb 2026 Pilot partnership confirmed with Limoncello Naples
Feb 2026 All server routes complete and auth-migrated — 20 order handlers, 8 payment handlers, full reporting suite, role and staff management
Jan 2026 Security foundation complete — PBKDF2-SHA256 PIN hashing, JWT Overseer auth, manager PIN gates, 15-permission role model
Dec 2025 Event ledger complete — append-only SQLite log with hash-chaining, immutable by design, every action permanently recorded
Nov 2025 Shared core complete — 45 files covering all events, projections, models, and cent-based money arithmetic

Where do you fit?

Restaurant Operator

Tired of your POS letting you down?

You've been blamed for a system failure one too many times. There's a better way.

→ Read Our Story
Investor

$25B market. Fundamentally better approach.

A local-first architecture that cloud POS systems cannot replicate without rebuilding from scratch.

→ See the Solution

The system is broken. Everyone knows it.

Internet goes down. Sales stop. The room panics.

Ghost orders appear. Double charges hit customers. Staff get blamed.

You call support. They tell you to restart the device.

The moment has passed. The evidence is gone. The system has moved on.

This isn't a bug. It's how these systems are designed.

Cloud-first POS systems put their uptime before your uptime. KINDpos doesn't.

15 years on the floor.

Worked every role from server to director of implementation.

Saw the same failures repeat across every system, every venue.

Spent years implementing POS systems and watching them fail operators.

The founding moment: decided to build the system that should have existed.

So we built it differently.

Local-first. Event-sourced. Offline-resilient. Transparent by design.

Every action recorded as a permanent, verifiable fact — nothing overwritten, nothing lost. A system that behaves like a good coworker: consistent, honest, and there when you need it.

Nice — Dependable — Yours
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You've lived it. We want to hear it.

We built KINDpos because we got tired of the same failures happening to good restaurants with good teams. Tell us what your current system gets wrong. Tell us what you wish it could do. Every submission is read personally by the founder. Nothing goes into a ticket queue.

Worst POS moment? Feature you wish existed? We've heard some things — nothing surprises us anymore.

What happens next

Every submission is read personally. We're building KINDpos for operators, so your input directly shapes what we build next. Thank you for taking the time.

A front row seat.

KINDpos is being built in the open. No hype, no vaporware — just real progress on a system that restaurants actually need. Leave your email and we'll keep you in the loop.

What you'll hear about
  • Development milestones and release updates
  • Pilot program openings
  • Launch announcements and early access opportunities
  • Industry insights from the KINDpos team

No spam. No noise. Just progress.

Be part of building something real.

KINDpos is selecting a small number of pilot partner restaurants. You get a fully functional, locally-run POS system and hands-on support from the team that built it. We get real-world feedback that shapes the final product. This is a genuine partnership — not a beta test.

Preferred Pricing Exclusive rates for early partners — not available after general availability. Discussed personally. Every situation is a little different and we want to get it right.
Service & Payments
  • Multi-seat checks & item splitting
  • Card + cash payments
  • Tip management & batch settlement
  • Tip pools — by hours or even split
  • Server checkout & shift close
Kitchen & Menu
  • Multi-station kitchen routing
  • Modifier pricing & prep groups
  • 86 items without deleting them
  • Discounts, comps & auto-gratuity
  • Browser-based back office
Operations
  • Timeclock & labor tracking
  • Sales, tips & transaction reports
  • Runs on any browser — even old Toast hardware
  • Works offline — no internet required
  • No per-transaction software fees

Here's how it works.

1
Apply

Submit the interest form with details about your restaurant — type, size, current setup, and what's not working.

2
We follow up

A member of the KINDpos team reaches out directly to learn more about your operation and answer any questions.

3
Agree on terms

We align on pricing, timeline, and what the pilot feedback process looks like. Every situation is different and we want to get it right.

4
Install & support

Hands-on installation, onboarding, and ongoing support from the team that built the system.

Request Pilot Information

Tell us about your operation and we'll reach out within 48 hours.